FRONTIER FIGHTING

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9

FRONTIER FIGHTING

CASUALTIES IN INDIA BRITISH TROOPS AMBUSHED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW DELHI, April 10. A communique announces that an encounter on the North-west Frontier resulted in six British officers being killed and five wounded. Nineteen other ranks were killed and 35 wounded when'followers of the Fakir of Ipi - attacked a convoy of lorries and armoured cars in a narrow gorge between Manzai and Wana. The tribesmen’s rifle fire brought down a bombing plane, but the occupants were uninjured. NINE HOURS' FIGHT ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY. NEW DELHI, April 11. (Received April 12, at 1.15 p.m.) The casualties in the encounter are now known as seven British officers killed and five wounded, and 22 other ranks killed and 40 wounded. The fight lasted nine hours. The enemy losses were heavy. The scene was the western end of the Shahur Tangi gorge, 500 ft deep, through which three armoured cars,, an aeroplane, and infantry were convoying a supply column of 55 lorries, all of which were saved.